- So it works like this:
- Racial Tracking Tech: Unless your Beam FCS is deliberately slower than this, this is your minimum tracking speed. Even if your ship can't move this fast, if your Beam FCS can track AT LEAST this fast, then it's weapons can too. This makes reduced tracking rate FCS rather unattractive options overall.
- Tracking Speed: If your ship is faster than your Beam FCS' tracking speed, it will use the lower speed. If your ship's speed is slower than the Beam FCS tracking speed, it will also use the lower speed. If you have a turret which tracks faster than the Beam FCS, than it will use the lower speed. If you have a turret that tracks slower than the Beam FCS...
it ignores it and still tracks at the same speed. Nah I'm kidding it uses the lower speed.
- It always uses the lowest speed. Building a Beam FCS with more tracking than you can use is only useful if you intend to upgrade the weapons and /or engines later... or just don't want to research a new one for a while. Using a Beam FCS with a lower tracking speed than the Racial Tracking speed is ONLY useful if you want really small, really cheap Fire Controls... say for dedicated Orbital Bombardment or some such.